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The Watch is set in the fictional Glenview, Ohio where Ben Stiller plays Evan, the manager at a local Costco and do-gooder known for organizing a slew of random self-help groups. When the night watchman at his store is killed, Evan decides to setup a neighborhood watch. It’s that call to arms that attracts blue-collar dad, Bob (Vince Vaughn), a police academy applicant, Franklin (Jonah Hill), and the recently divorced Jamarcus (Richard Ayoade). None too pleased with the deficient caliber of his crew; Evan takes them on late-night patrols, which eventually lead the group to their alien encounters.

Randy Myers of the San Jose Mercury News writes, “Everyone in the cast steps up to the plate and tags the bases convincingly. All are good, but it is Richard Ayoade who earns the most laughs.”

BoxOfficeGuru.com predicts that The Watch will open at around $22M.

Rating: R // Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi // Runtime: 1 hr. 38 min. // Starring: Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade // Directed by: Akiva Schaffer // Written by: Jared Stern, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg // Produced by: 21 Laps Entertainment and Twentieth Century Fox// Distributed by: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

In the action-comedy, 21 Jump Street, Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum), a pair of underachieving cops under the command of Captain Dickson (Ice Cube), are sent back to a local high school to infiltrate and bring down a drug ring. Older and wiser, the mismatched partners’ plans to apply the lessons learned from the first time around are derailed when the two find that high school has dramatically changed since their days. Jenko, the jock, is now an outsider. While Schmidt, once the geek, is now cool. Confronted by the terror and anxiety of being a teenager again, further compounded by issues that have long gone unresolved, hilarity ensues.

Michael Rechtshaffen of the Hollywood Reporter writes, “Not since Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg teamed up in The Other Guys has an onscreen pairing proved as comically rewarding as the inspired partnership of Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum as baby-faced cops who go undercover at a high school to bust a drug ring.”

21 Jump Street will be released on March 16, 2012.

21 Jump Street
Rating: R
Genre: Action, Comedy
Runtime: 1 hr. 50 min.
Starring: Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Brie Larson and Ice Cube
Directed By: Phil Lord, Chris Miller
Written By: Michael Bacall, Jonah Hill, Patrick Hasburgh and Stephen J. Cannell
Distributed By: Columbia Pictures
Produced By: Columbia Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Relativity Media, Original Film and Cannell Studios